Creating New Openings

Whether “custom-made” to replicate a certain period or style of door or a stock Simpson or Buffelen door, we have the sources and the resources to make it happen.

Replacing windows with doors is a time-honored tradition among the modern day remodelers. When it’s possible to do, it can save a wheelbarrow full of money.

It can translate into not having to open up the wall above to install a header-support-beam (because one already exists), not having to get a building permit, dealing with a building inspector, dealing with drywall work and thus saving a few clams. It’s a good thing.

This is a really old house on Vista Avenue in Southwest Portland. You’ll notice how both of these projects involve our clients wanting to gain access out to their decks. Both wanted double-entry doors and both wanted the doors to be outswing(See the hinges?).

These were custom-made doors that were sized to fit the existing rough-opening width, as well as to achieve a height that would allow us to reuse the crown mouldings on both the exterior and the interior, which would also maintain the sightlines that match the other ground-floor openings on this house and in this particular corner room.